Telephone pay-station.



G. A. LONG. TELEPHONE PAY STATION L APPLICATION nun 1120.13, 1905.

Patented May 23, 1911.

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TELEPHONE PAY-STATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1911.

Application filed December 13, 1905. 7 Serial No. 291,504.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Lone, citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTelephone Pay-Stations, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to produce a device of the classspecified having features of novelty and advantage, particularly asregards the construction of the casing.

Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of the parts making up the casingsfor a pay station set, shown separated to clearly illustrate theconstruction. Fig. 3 is a pin for uniting the parts of Figs. 1 and 2 andthe locking screw for said pin. Fig. 4 is a penspective view of theassembled casing. Fig. 5 is a view of the upper front edge of thetelephone casing. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of the'same part ofthe casing and showing the construction of and guards for the coinslots.

One object of my invention is to produce a telephone pay station havingindependent compartments for the pay station equipment and the money boxso that a repair man can get to the equipment without having access tothe money boxand the collector can get at the money box without havingaccess to the equipment compartment.

In the drawings a denotes the casing in which the equipment, such aschannels to lead the coin to the signals, is installed and 6 denotes themoney box which is secured to a back-plate c and has a drawer Z). At itslower front end the casing a is pivoted to the money box between thelugs a by a pin 03 passing through one of said lugs and the casing andthreaded into the other lug, this pin being grooved near one end as at dwhere it passes through a lug a in the interior of the casing a, a screwa being provided which can be run down until its end projects into thegroove and thus prevent the removal of the pin and the separation of thetwo parts of the apparatus except by the unlocking of the casing so thatit can be swung down and the screw a can be backed out of the groove inthe pin. A look a is provided at the upper rear of the casing to engagethe back-plate 0. Through the bottom of the casing and the top of thebox are registering slots'a? 6 When channels are used to. guide thecoins to sound signals their lower ends are secured between lugs at eachside of the slots in order to keep located in the same casing with themoney Many objections have been raised box. against having the paystation equipment and the money box in the same compartment or soarranged that one is exposed in getting at the other and it is extremelydesirable to have the two sections entirely independent of one anotherand yet have them so related that they will work together to accomplishthe objects of instruments of thischaracter. My device above describedprovides entirely independent compartments and yet they are so connectedthat all the functions of the machine are fully carried out.

Another feature of the invention resides in the novel construction ofthe casing by means of which the coin slots through which the coins arefed into the casing are formed with great accuracy to fit the coin theyare.

to receive and are guarded to prevent the insertion of a bent coin. Thedetail view of Fig. 5 shows the construction. This view is of the upperfront of the casing a which is cut away across .its entire width, thetop being provided with the upwardly and downwardly extending flanges aa. A cap or. is provided to fill in the cut away portion of the casingand in connection with the top of the casing forms the coin slots a e0.. Whether the slots be formed wholly in the cap or the casing orpartly in both each one can be made to fit closely the coin it is toreceive. The equipment which receives and handles the coin after it ispassed through the slot is made enough larger than the coin to insureits free travel to perform its work, and consequently theslot is theonly guard there is to prevent the use of slightly larger or spuriouscoins or tokens than the slot is designed to receive. This constructionhas decided advantages in this respect. The cap a has the dependingflange a substantially parallel to the flanges a a; these flanges form aguard for the slot to prevent the insertion of a bent coin. Heretoforewhen the slots have been merely holes through the thin wall of thecasing it has been possible to push a bent coin down into the channelsor other receiving equipment and clog the machine; with these guards itis impossible to force a bent coin into the machine. The cap is securedin place by screws a passing through the guard flanges, as indicated inFigs. 5 and 6. a

I claim as my invention:

1. A money box and an equipment casing, and a separable pivotalconnection uniting said parts and means accessible only from within oneof said parts for holding said pivotal connection against disengagement.

2. A money box and an equipment casing pivotally united by a separablepivot, and means accessible only from within the equipment box forholding said pivotal connection against disengagement.

3. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion, a capclosing said cut away portion and forming coin slots with one of theopposing edges of said casing.

4. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion, and acap closing said cut away portion, said cap being channeled to form coinslots in connection with an opposing edge of said casing.

5. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion and acap closing said cut away portion and forming coin slots in connectionwith one of the opposing edges of said casing, said opposing edges beingprovided with substantially parallel flanges at the coin slots, for thepurposes described.

6. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion, oneedge of which is provided with upstanding and depending flanges, and acap closing said cut away portion and provided with a flange parallel tothe flanges on said casing.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. LONG. Vitnesses H. E. HART, D. S. KREIMENDAHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

